Neck-yoke holder.



No. 832,021. PATENTED SEPT. 25, 1906.

H. M. F. LEIGHTY.

NECK YOKE HOLDER.

PLIOATION FILED 1 HENRY M. F. LEIGHTY, OF DAWSON, IOWA.

NECK-YOKE HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 25, 1906.

Anplication filed January 29,1906. Serial No. 298,334.

T0 60% whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY M. F. LEIGHTY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Dawson, in the county of Dallas and State of Iowa, haveinvented a certain new and useful Neck-Yoke Holder, of which thefollowing is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a neck- *oke holder of simple,durable, and inexpensive construction designed to be applied in thenature of an attachment to any ordinary wagon-tongue and when inposition to positively hold the neck-yoke center against. removal fromthe tongue and at the same time capable of being quickly and easilydetached to permit the removal of the neck yoke from the tongue.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement, and combinationof the various parts of the device whereby the objects con templated areobtained, as hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed out in my claims,and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 shows aperspective view of a portion of a vehicletongue and neck-yoke with theneck-yoke center arranged on the tongue,

' showing my improvement applied to the tongue and in position forsecuring the neckyoke center. Fig. 2 shows a detail perspective view ofthe spring locking-rod. Fig. 3 shows an enlarged detail front end viewof the collar to pass over the end of a vehicletongue with the springlocking-rod in position therein, and Fig. 4 shows a perspective viewillustrating a modification.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, I have used thereference-numeral 10 to indicate a vehicletongue having mounted thereonthe usual guard for a neck-yoke center, (indicated by the numeral 11.)The portion of the neck-yoke shown is indicated by the numeral 12 and isprovided with a neck-yoke center 13, designed to pass over the end ofthe tongue and engage the guard 11 to prevent further rearward movement.

The parts just described are of the ordinary construction and form nopart of my present invention.

My attachment comprises, first, a collar 14, formed with a hook 15 anddesigned to be permanently connected with the tongue in the rear of theguard, the hook thereof being on the under side of the tongue. I providea second collar 16, having outwardly-projecting ends 17, spaced apartand connected by a rivet 18. This collar is designed to be placed on theforward end of a vehicle-tongue in front of the guard 11. The springlockingrod comprises a coiled portion 19, wound around a rivet 18, therod at one end of the coil being inclined rearwardly at 20 and thenlaterally at 21, the part 21 being designed to engage the under surfaceof the vehicletongue. At the other end of the collar 19 the spring-rodinclines downwardly and rearwardly at 22, then straight rearwardly at23, then upwardly and rearwardly at 2 1, then straight rearwardly at 25,and on its rear end is a downwardly-inclined portion 26. The end 25 isdesigned to be placed in the hook 15, as shown in Fig. 1, and the end 26prevents a forward movement of the collar 16 and the spring locking-rod.I

In practical use and assuming the device to be applied. to a vehicletongue in the position shown in Fig. 1 obviously the pressure of the end21 of the spring locking-rod on the under surface of the tongue willserve to secure the collar 16 in the position in which it is placed,while the end 26 of the spring locking-rod in the hook 15 will serve topositively prevent a forward movement of the collar 16. Furthermore, theresiliency of the coiled portion 19 will serve to hold the end 25 of therod downwardly into firm engagement with the hook 15. The neck-yokecenter may have free movement between the guard 11 and the collar 16,but is positively prevented from slipping over the forward end of thetongue by said collar and spring locking-rod. Assuming that it isdesired to remove the neck-yoke, the operator grasps the rear endportion of the spring locking-rod, releases it from the hook 15, andpermits it to swing downwardly, thus relieving the pressure of the end21 against the under surface of the tongue, so that the collar 16 mayeasily be removed from the forward'end of the tongue, and then theneck-yoke center may be withdrawn over the forward end of the tongue inthe ordinary way.

In the modified form shown in Fig. 4 I have shown a form of my inventiondesigned for use in connection with a wagon-tongue having a loop 27 atits forward end. The holder is formed complete of a single piece ofspring metal with its forward end formed into a spiral coil 28, designedto be secured to the lower-portion of the loop 28, as shown in thedrawings. A short distance in the rear of the spiral ,coil are twoupwardly-projecting IIO lugs 29 to engage the under surface of thetongue a short distance in advance of. the neck-yoke guard to therebyhold the neckyoke ring 13 between said lugs and said guard. Immediatelyin the rear of the lugs 29 the holder is bent downwardly at 30 to al lowroom for the neck-yoke ring 13. The rear end of the holder comprises astraight portion 31 and a loop 32 to be engaged by the hook 33 in thesame .manner as in my preferred form before described. The loop 32 isyieldingly held in the hook 33 by the resiliency of the metal betweenthe lugs 19, which engage the under surface of the tongue and the rearend of the holder.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent of the United States therefor, is

1. The combination witha vehicletongue formed with a hook a shortdistance in the rear of its forward end and a neck-yoke holder havingitsforward end designed for detachable connection with the forward endof a wagon-tongue and its body portion designed to be yieldingly helddownwardly and shaped to engage said hook.

2. The combination of a wagon-tongue having a hook thereon, of aneck-yoke holder device provided with means for detachably connectingit, with :the forward end of the tongue and .its rear end designed toengage said hook and also provided. with a springing portion to engagethe tongue a slight distance in the rear of the body where it isattached to the tongue and to yieldingly hold its rear end downwardly inengagement with the bottom of said hook.

3. In a neck-yoke holder, the combination of a collar, a spring-rodpivoted to the collar with one end designed to be yieldingly heldagainst the under surface of the tongue, and the other end projectedrearwardly under the tongue, and a hook secured to the tongue to engagesaid rear end of the spring-rod.-

4. The combination with a vehicle-tongue having a neck-yoke guard.thereon, ofv a collar fixed to the tongue in the rear of the guard andprovided with a hook, a collar slidingly mounted .on the forward end ofthe tongue and formed with two downwardly-projecting ends, a rivetconnecting said ends, and a spring locking-rod formed with a coil.surrounding the rivet and having, one of the ends projecting from thecoil extending rearwardly and then laterally. to yieldinglyengage theunder surface of the tongue, and having the other end extendedrearwardly under the neck-yoke guard and formed ,with a downwardextension at its rear end, said .rear end designed to yieldingly rest insaidhook.

HENRY M. F; LEIGHTY.

Witnesses: a

ORR-EN K. ANDERSON, R. F. EVERHART.

